I know you're not holding your breath, but I think a lot of people in the crypto community owe you an apology. I consider this phase of crypto a highly-experimental one and any and all honest attempts to try something new and different have the potential to help the overall community. I also would have loved to see what AUR would have looked like without the early rampant speculation. I hate how toxic and competitive it all gets at times and hope that some of those on the other side of the fence choose to reevaluate their positions on AUR now the airdrop is over and the excess has been demonstrated to be destroyed. I had a chance encounter with Jonn Gnarr at a dinner party a few months back and we briefly talked AUR and BTC. He was really nice. He seemed receptive of the ideas but not very knowledgeable about its possibilities or Iceland's general interest however.

There was a problem with organized identity theft on Facebook, in order to get coins.

What's your estimate of how many claims were fraudulent? It'd be really interesting to know the real number of Icelanders who were reached by the airdrop. 35,000 (first airdrop claim count) seems extremely high.

Was the identity theft problem mainly in 1st stage of the airdrop or also in the 2nd and 3rd (which had much less claims: 5000 and 2600)?

Well, technically yesterday there were 12 million AUR in existence, now it's just 6.69 million AUR.

Thing is: it was planned all along that the rest of the premine was to be burned. However: many doubted Balduro would really do this, especially when this didn't happen on (or right after) 3/25 when the 3rd airdrop ended.

So there was great uncertainty, Balduro could've thrown these 5.3 Million AUR at the market at any time.

This uncertainty is now removed.

The market already reacted a bit: price shot from 0.00012 BTC to 0.00016 BTC and has now corrected back down to 0.00014 BTC. I don't think this was the full effect yet, though: the news that Balduro was an honest man all along will shut up all the scam-accusations and improve the public image of Auroracoin greatly over time. This danger was a large factor holding the coin back.

The Auroracoin community can now look forward without that fear into an interesting future.

There was lots of hope for the coin (and misunderstandings about it being 'official' or 'suppoted by the state' and things got quite overheated with prices of up to BTC 0.15 at the height of the craze.

Current prices are still "at zero" if one views an all-time chart. Low was around BTC 0.00005000 not long ago.